Metropolitan AME Zion Church (Jersey City)

The Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a church on 140 Belmont Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey, affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation was organized in 1846 by Reverend Timothy Tate, and it moved to several locations, including Communipaw Avenue. On 27 March 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of his last speeches at the church, and he was assassinated eight days later in Memphis, Tennessee.